Elena

“We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive: love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“There is no knowing what the ancient people first called the caves. There's no knowing what they called anything. Sometimes, I think we should stop giving new names to very old things. Sometimes, I wonder if the most accurate history is the one that remains unclaimed and untold.”
― Rebekah Bergman

“Killing has become exempt from punishment. And as it goes unpunished, nobody notices it anymore. And as nobody notices it, it doesn't exist...Crime has come to be regarded as a normal, everyday activity. Everyone commits it. That's just how the world would look if concentration camps became the norm. Nobody would see anything wrong with them.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“Imagination was so close to memory. When you pictured the future hard enough, it could feel like the past.”
― Rebekah Bergman, The Museum of Human History